Roy Tighe is an independent producer born in Fort Frances, Ontario, Canada who loves all aspect of the entertainment business.  His skills include acting, producing, directing, writing and editing   Roy moved to Vancouver, British Columbia in 2001 to take the Film and Television program at Capilano College.  Shortly after college Roy started doing stand up comedy at Yuk Yuks Comedy Club in Vancouver, Calgary, and in various other comedy clubs in the surrounding areas.  In 2008 Roy founded Tigheland Productions. The first project Roy and Tigheland produced was “The Backshop”.  “The Backshop” was originally a short film directed by Graeme Morgan and co-produced, edited by Daniel Robinson who are Roy’s childhood friends from Fort Frances.  Roy wrote, produced, acted and co-edited the short then the following year Roy and Dan revamped “The Backshop” and produced it into what you see today as the webseries titled “The Backshop Show”.  In 2010 Roy stopped production on “The Backshop Show” during filming of season 2 due to unforeseen events.  Lead actor Paul McDonald was diagnosed with a brain tumor forcing him to leave the show and due to the economy crashing the pro-shop they shot out of went bankrupt and had to close down.  Even though it pained Roy to shut the show down he did; “The Backshop Show means to much to me to just do a hack job and replace a lead actor halfway through a second season of a show? Is that what I’m supposed to do? No. That’s gay.”  During the time of “The Backshop Show” days Roy and the Tigheland crew would still shoot other sketches and develop new ideas.  After Roy made the decision to cancel “The Backshop Show” as a webseries Roy took it as a sign that maybe it was time to move on and pursue other projects and expand the Tigheland creative endeavors.  Since then Paul has made a full recovery and Tigheland and Roy have their first feature length documentary in post production which Roy directed, titled “Never Be Done: The Richard Lett Story”.  They are also currently looking for funding for 2 features that they’ve developed “Lake Cop 2 and The Assemblers Movie“.  Tigheland and Roy have also experimented with other creative ideas producing dozens of viral shorts and helped other talented actors, producers, creators with there productions as well.  Roy currently lives in Los Angeles, California pursuing “The Backshop Show” as a TV series, working as an actor and running Tigheland Productions.

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